Tradiţie şi solidaritate de neam în jurul unei ctitorii: mănăstirea Mărgineni
Tradition and Family Solidarity Around a Monastic Foundation – Mărgineni Monastery

Summary/Abstract: Founded in the last quarter of the 15th century by the great “vornic” Drăghici, the Mărgineni Monastery benefited in the following century from donations and support from the founder’s direct descendants, the boyars of Mărgineni, high dignitaries in the princely council. In the 17th century, with the extinction of the family’s male line, the founding rights over this monastic establishment were assumed by the women of the lineage and their descendants. Thus, the Cantacuzinos inherited these rights through their mother, Elina, the daughter of Prince Radu Șerban and Princess Elina, herself the daughter of Udriște „banul” of Mărgineni; while the Filipești family also inherited through another female line, via Stana, the mother of Dumitrașco Filipescu and the daughter of Staico of Bucov and Frujina, herself the daughter of Drăghici “spătar” of Mărgineni. Their concern for this monastic foundation reflected a profound awareness of the prestige and continuity of their lineage, as well as a sense of responsibility for the remembrance of their ancestors. The monastery thus became, for many of them, their own necropolis. Through their donations, part of the landed estates of the two families became part of the monastery’s patrimony, turning it into one of the wealthiest in Wallachia.

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